When Career Takes Over

The train lurched forward as Molu planted a kiss on her forehead at the corner seat of the second class coach of Delhi-Kolkata Rajdhani. Tears of parting flowed down their cheeks and a silent promise of meeting soon was murmured by the shuffled breathing of the two.

He moved to Netherlands, leaving his Gheelu behind but packing all the memories that he paid half of his salary at the airport for! The zip of his poor bag was breathing it's last breathe at the conveyor belt of the Amsterdam airport when he placed a quick good morning call to his wretched better half to inform her that he had reached but would be out of reach till he settled in. 

Gheelu was glad to hear the news and his voice after what felt like ages, but her heart sank too to hear the news of snap in connection. She murmured under her breathe to do the same if she ever got a chance to. 

Almost instantly God heard her murmuring and she received a letter of acceptance from the University she had applied at in France. 

Days passed by and he got more busy than usual. Weekends seemed short for their conversations and arguments ended with a short pause in the conversation instead of cuddles and make up kisses! 

The count down to her departure commenced. Their conversations grew shorter but consisted of solid promises of meeting at the exit gate of Lyon airport. Everytime he called he added another item to her list of "must-take" to France...

Gheelu boarded the flight with a wide grin, prancing towards her seat in swift pace. While her childish behavior awed the other passengers and the staff in flight, she justified her prancing as a way for the flight to take off in time, if not earlier! Alas, the plane moved forward and she started counting the hours!

The flight touched down, she rushed to the luggage conveyor belt and cursed under her breath everytime a different looking bag moved towards her. After a good long 15 minutes came her bags and she picked up pace hence. 

She struggled with her bags but reached the exit. Looked to her left then to her right without blinking. Gheelu rubbed her eyes and checked again to be sure Molu was not upto some prank again! With a sunken heart she connected her phone to the airport WiFi to find a text from Molu stating his job interview with his dream company was scheduled on that day.